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Belgrade, Rs

Developed a comprehensive vision, strategy, and product roadmap for software that replicates the decision-making process of particular individuals to create a virtual workforce owned and monetized by the people it is modeled after.Conducted extensive market research and validated demand through hundreds of in-depth interviews with consumers and businesses, translating insights into actionable product strategies.Designed the overarching solution architecture, and built and integrated multiple novel software components.Built a native iOS mobile app in Swift, released it on the AppStore, and conducted several digital marketing campaigns via Apple Search Ads, Google Ads, Meta Ads, and X Ads to estimate the customer acquisition cost (CAC) and marketing budget to the break-even point and beyond.Successfully managed cross-functional, remote collaboration with my co-founder across five countries and time zones, ensuring effective communication and seamless product execution.

Founded and led a venture builder (aka startup studio) — a company that created startups in-house end-to-end from ideation to product launch. Acted as a business owner for every product.Built an original data-driven framework to analyze markets and target audiences, identify trends, gaps, and opportunities, isolate problems and matching technologies to solve them, perform multi-level competitive analysis, assess business models and go-to-market strategies, and develop marketing campaigns for user acquisition, activation, and retention. The framework allowed a small team to research hundreds of opportunities on dozens of markets.Designed and implemented an asynchronous workflow decomposition and tracking system using a goal dependency graph and probabilistic resource allocation that unblocked the team from technical and organizational impediments.Recruited and managed a geographically diverse, fully remote team from Lisbon, Portugal to Bali, Indonesia.

Moscow, Russian Federation

Researched and experimented with cutting-edge AI technologies to integrate into ERP and CRM products of a major enterprise software vendor.Interviewed tens of B2B customers to analyze business and user needs, and functional and non-functional requirements, translating them into structured solution proposals outlining the use cases, user stories, identified problems, relevant technologies, product development roadmaps, and distribution, adoption, and monetization strategies.Built and owned the agile product lifecycle from research and development to launching several SaaS products in optical document recognition (OCR/ODR), voice conversational agents with IP-telephony integration for helpdesks, and big data anomaly detection. Hosted the ceremonies, and managed, prioritized, and groomed the product features backlog based on business impact, customer demand, and technical feasibility.Designed a pipeline to continuously gather and analyze usage data and customer feedback to identify areas of growth and inform product improvements and optimizations based on these insights in a data-driven manner.Developed a range of proof-of-concept experimental software parts to demonstrate the applicability of the technology on the real-world data of potential customers.Liased communication among the vertical product teams, horizontal SRE and QA engineers, customers, suppliers, and shareholders to balance the stakeholder needs and technical and security constraints.Developed and maintained up-to-date interactive technical documentation.Seamlessly transferred the working process from in-office to fully remote by leveraging asynchronous team and project management tools.

London, United Kingdom

Designed and implemented a range of experimental technologies in knowledge capture, representation, and reasoning. Created self-aware evolving artificial life forms on a custom-built hypergraph-based virtual machine. Co-authored a paper “Higher Order Cognition using Computers: Learning Abstract Concepts with Recursive Graph-based Self Organizing Maps” and presented it at the ALife XV conference.

Moscow, Russian Federation

Assembled and coordinated multiple cross-functional teams of AI researchers, backend and frontend software engineers, business analysts, product designers, quality assurance, customer support, financial analysis and planning (FP&A), product marketing, and sales.Implemented hierarchical agile methodology across multiple cross-functional teams of 80+ people based on test-driven development (TDD) and automated quality assurance (QA) to ensure continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD).Acted as a chief architect and managed the full product lifecycle for software the company built.Led the development of multiple software products for building data models of enterprises and visualizing insights related to critical business functions in real time. Designed highly custom user interfaces (UI) and workflows to produce a unique and highly efficient user experience (UX) tailored to the specific needs of every customer.Developed an HR Tech product using semantic analysis and machine learning, expanding the candidate funnel throughput 10x.

Moscow, Russian Federation

Designed and built the product—a dialogue-based semantic search engine—from the ground up.Hired and led a cross-functional team of researchers, developers, analysts, and QA engineers.Implemented agile product development workflow with continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD).

Moscow, Russian Federation

Developed custom solutions based on Microsoft CRM and SAP.Designed and implemented a no-code solution for business consultants to create client customizations without requiring developers, effectively fully automating the job I was hired to do.Awarded "The Best Innovative Solution of the Year".